Friday, 26 November 2010
If there's one thing I know...
It's the art of teasing (and procrastination).
In my last post, I strongly implied (fine, it may have been explicitly stated.) that I will have something else up within that week. And well, today is more than 2 weeks from then. Rereading the post again, even I myself strongly believed that something was supposed to be up. In my defense, I was working on a post during those few days, but it sort of got lost along the way (contextually, not literally) and sounded like a repetition of something else I already had done.
Naturally, I did not post it up.
So, here we are. Postless for more than 2 weeks, and I have not had the spare time to work up any material to post up. Yet, I am still behind on my research work (thanks to some poorly written paper being the basis of my research). So, I still don't foresee any free time for myself until the Christmas (1 week) break, which I have a strong gut feeling that I will spend working on this research still.
Hopefully, however, by some Christmas (or Hanukkah) miracle, I would attain some free time then to talk about... well, what I usually talk about here. My experiencing helping out with orientation this year ( I have a rough outline for it since the beginning of last semester, but it's nowhere near ready), my experiences during last semester (if I can even remember any of it by that time. Another Christmas miracle for you kiddies to wish upon!), what I'm working on at the moment (I promised I will try to un-dry it up as much as I can), my life, general opinion pieces, suggestion pieces (I still do take suggestions, if anyone has any) or even the, I would imagine, dreaded lyric posts.
For the time being, I did log in to share a little something with all of you. It's my (not until Monday) official results of my exams last semester. The semester that killed all my free time (although that's more of my own doing what with taking up 2 jobs and taking an unnecessary third year subject) and made my life a hectic hell with the strongest recollection being the last minute sprint in finishing my group (not really, but will talk about that more if I get the chance later) projects (not one, not two, but three!) which involve a lack of sleep, insomnia, all-day caffiene intake, 5-to-9 days (you read that right, 5am to 9pm), and not even time to recuperate because I had to prepare for my exams which were just the week after all my projects were due.
Well, here they are (drumrolls please....)
It was so much better than I had expected. The only 'sad' thing is that I no longer have any 100% result (which I actually want to see if that 99% was supposed to be on Monday because that paper was probably the easiest). It was not too far off from my usual results (which I didn't think I would manage), except that 86%, which is the stupid third year subject, that even most third years students got a grade lower than their usual grades (that is the 7's on the left hand side). I barely manage to scrap a 7 (the cutoff is 85%), so yay me!!
The 92% was probably the most horrible paper (96 and 86 were both close seconds with some parts that I was seriously blanking out during the exam. First time that has happened in a while.) with not only questions that I have no idea answering but also insufficient time to complete everything (even with frantic chicken-scratch writing from the start), not to mention, it was scheduled just a day after another paper. (That's always fun.) Actually, even the 99 paper had me blank in the mind for a certain section so maybe that's where that 1 mark went. But I can thank the reduced weightage, and best 4 out of 5 properties of most of the exams here for a significantly better result than it would have been if based solely on my papers (I'd imagine).
Overall, this was probably my worst performance in exams as every paper had parts I have absolutely no idea about, but it did make me make a resolution to be better at time management next semester (which I want to write a post about so I could always remind myself about the disaster that was this semester).
In conclusion, there are two ways to look at this: One, I could be one of those anal-over-scrutunizing, building-jumping, overly-stressed people (which I am at times, or most of the times, well the times that I think deem it necessary, but not now when I have no control over it) and well, look for a bridge/building for me to jump off from for that appauling marks (a 5.5% drop from the previous semester!) and someone to spank me, in that order because I would be too embaressed to still be alive for the spanking. Or, and I'm going with this one if you still couldn't deduce yet, I could just take it as a good save (in terms of my CGPA) especially considering my dodgy (this is probably one of the few Aussie slang words that I find useful as I can't seem to remember the non-Aussie equivalent) work put in, and be glad that I still manage to pull off a rather outstanding result (Well, I may not be selected for obtaining the best results for a second year student, but that's fine too. At least I won't have the pressure to continue the streak in my third year) by a normal person's standard.
Honestly, I am happy with what I got, and that's that. Till next time (hopefully soon), have a good one!
(Oh, nearly forgot, I hope everyone out there had/have a Happy Turturkeykey Day! That's Thanksgiving for those who are not into HIMYM. Extra [imaginary] brownie points if you figure out what turturkeykey is without looking it up.)
In my last post, I strongly implied (fine, it may have been explicitly stated.) that I will have something else up within that week. And well, today is more than 2 weeks from then. Rereading the post again, even I myself strongly believed that something was supposed to be up. In my defense, I was working on a post during those few days, but it sort of got lost along the way (contextually, not literally) and sounded like a repetition of something else I already had done.
Naturally, I did not post it up.
So, here we are. Postless for more than 2 weeks, and I have not had the spare time to work up any material to post up. Yet, I am still behind on my research work (thanks to some poorly written paper being the basis of my research). So, I still don't foresee any free time for myself until the Christmas (1 week) break, which I have a strong gut feeling that I will spend working on this research still.
Hopefully, however, by some Christmas (or Hanukkah) miracle, I would attain some free time then to talk about... well, what I usually talk about here. My experiencing helping out with orientation this year ( I have a rough outline for it since the beginning of last semester, but it's nowhere near ready), my experiences during last semester (if I can even remember any of it by that time. Another Christmas miracle for you kiddies to wish upon!), what I'm working on at the moment (I promised I will try to un-dry it up as much as I can), my life, general opinion pieces, suggestion pieces (I still do take suggestions, if anyone has any) or even the, I would imagine, dreaded lyric posts.
For the time being, I did log in to share a little something with all of you. It's my (not until Monday) official results of my exams last semester. The semester that killed all my free time (although that's more of my own doing what with taking up 2 jobs and taking an unnecessary third year subject) and made my life a hectic hell with the strongest recollection being the last minute sprint in finishing my group (not really, but will talk about that more if I get the chance later) projects (not one, not two, but three!) which involve a lack of sleep, insomnia, all-day caffiene intake, 5-to-9 days (you read that right, 5am to 9pm), and not even time to recuperate because I had to prepare for my exams which were just the week after all my projects were due.
Well, here they are (drumrolls please....)
It was so much better than I had expected. The only 'sad' thing is that I no longer have any 100% result (which I actually want to see if that 99% was supposed to be on Monday because that paper was probably the easiest). It was not too far off from my usual results (which I didn't think I would manage), except that 86%, which is the stupid third year subject, that even most third years students got a grade lower than their usual grades (that is the 7's on the left hand side). I barely manage to scrap a 7 (the cutoff is 85%), so yay me!!The 92% was probably the most horrible paper (96 and 86 were both close seconds with some parts that I was seriously blanking out during the exam. First time that has happened in a while.) with not only questions that I have no idea answering but also insufficient time to complete everything (even with frantic chicken-scratch writing from the start), not to mention, it was scheduled just a day after another paper. (That's always fun.) Actually, even the 99 paper had me blank in the mind for a certain section so maybe that's where that 1 mark went. But I can thank the reduced weightage, and best 4 out of 5 properties of most of the exams here for a significantly better result than it would have been if based solely on my papers (I'd imagine).
Overall, this was probably my worst performance in exams as every paper had parts I have absolutely no idea about, but it did make me make a resolution to be better at time management next semester (which I want to write a post about so I could always remind myself about the disaster that was this semester).
In conclusion, there are two ways to look at this: One, I could be one of those anal-over-scrutunizing, building-jumping, overly-stressed people (which I am at times, or most of the times, well the times that I think deem it necessary, but not now when I have no control over it) and well, look for a bridge/building for me to jump off from for that appauling marks (a 5.5% drop from the previous semester!) and someone to spank me, in that order because I would be too embaressed to still be alive for the spanking. Or, and I'm going with this one if you still couldn't deduce yet, I could just take it as a good save (in terms of my CGPA) especially considering my dodgy (this is probably one of the few Aussie slang words that I find useful as I can't seem to remember the non-Aussie equivalent) work put in, and be glad that I still manage to pull off a rather outstanding result (Well, I may not be selected for obtaining the best results for a second year student, but that's fine too. At least I won't have the pressure to continue the streak in my third year) by a normal person's standard.
Honestly, I am happy with what I got, and that's that. Till next time (hopefully soon), have a good one!
(Oh, nearly forgot, I hope everyone out there had/have a Happy Turturkeykey Day! That's Thanksgiving for those who are not into HIMYM. Extra [imaginary] brownie points if you figure out what turturkeykey is without looking it up.)
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